Avalon As A Real Place

The People Of The Wind.

Avalon seems like a real place because:

there is a wealth of environmental and geographical detail;

there is recognizable historical change and progression;

many individual characters live there.

Arinnian sets off to fly from Gray on Falkayn Bay to Lythran's eyrie in the Weathermother and passes over the countryside outside the town. We would like to accompany him on his long journey over Avalon. However, after a double space between paragraphs, Arinnian is suddenly found to be benched with young Ythrians in the dining hall at Lythran's and Blawsa's place. A narrative, unlike real life, can jump ahead in time! He is not seated close to his childhood friend, Eyath, daughter of his host and hostess, but she and he exchange a look and leave the dining hall together. They sit on a platform near the top of a copperwood. The different kinds of trees are described in detail. The human male and Ythrian female see the moon, Morgana, and the constellations, Wheel, Swords, Zirraukh and Ship.

A real place - that will suffice until human beings really do colonize extra-solar planets.